🇷🇺 Igor Girkin on an imminent mobilization in Russia: “According to numerous reports coming in through the grapevine — nevertheless, from people who are quite experienced, including a number of fairly high-ranking government officials (former officials, at least) sitting here with me who have considerable experience and connections — there are very clear signals circulating through the grapevine that in a month, perhaps a little over a month, we can expect a new mobilization of an unknown scale. It is still unclear whether it will be nationwide or, once again, partial, but nevertheless. Accordingly, since four years have now passed since the last mobilization in 2022, and our country has achieved very little in military operations over those four years — and in some respects even less than that, because, I emphasize, since then we have also somehow managed to surrender Kherson, Lyman, and much else, while taking relatively little compared with what we have given up — the war is unpopular among the population. People don’t understand why the war is being fought. They don’t understand what they are supposed to sacrifice their lives for. And why the people running this war happily keep their families in the damned West that they constantly condemn. Some have children in London, others in New York, others in Paris. And they have absolutely no intention of going to fight themselves. People don’t trust the country’s leadership. People don’t want to fight for the state, and unfortunately, they don’t want to fight for the country either. People don’t understand the goals of the war. So those who can are running away. And unfortunately, that is an objective fact. They are simply fleeing to hide from the upcoming mobilization. There is no other explanation, and there cannot be one. Essentially, any other explanation is either stupidity or a lie.”